You probably know what I'm talking about if you know the leaks, but respecting MK's desire to not be spoiled, I'm going to spoiler this suggestion. This may not end up being necessary if it gets a crazy stat boost or something, but just in case, I want this out there.

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Cang will be a lot different when Breakdown is back up. For now, I'm going to use this thread to post moves that will either be added or attempted to be added.

Mundane Moves: Inspired by Dark Souls 2, these moves will be incredibly high in base power, but do damage based on your lowest stat out of all stats. Things like Mew, who have a decent stat in everything will do the most damage with these moves.

The thing I discovered when doing the math for these kind of moves, is that if you were to invest "mundanely" in any Pokemon's stats, they would get really similar damage outputs from them. Scizor who has SpA stat of 55 (218 lowest stat), would be able to do 83% as much damage as Mew, who has 100 in everything (261 lowest stat). This would mean the moves would have nowhere near as much damage variance as most moves.

To address that problem, instead of scaling off of the actual stat (STAT), it will scale off of 195 less than the stat (STAT - 195). When scaled this way, Scizor (Multiplier 23) uses the move, it will only be 34% as strong as when Mew (66) used the move. This ratio of damage is comparable to the difference between Skarmory using Brave Bird and Darmanitan using Flare Blitz (Skarmory's attack being 36% as strong as Darmanitan's).

In order for these moves to be actually worth using, the Base Powers have to be incredibly high. To make them comparable to a Darmanitan Flare Blitz when used by Kyurem, (the Pokemon with the highest mundane potential outside of Ubers that I've checked so far(68)) they would need a base power of 954. So, for now we'll be using 1000 for all the moves, since mundane investment is actually really competitively detrimental to your Pokemon.

Insignificant Details: If a Pokemon's multiplier would be 0 or less, the move would automatically fail. For below level 100 compatibility, the move's damage multiplier would not subtract 195, but instead take away twice the level minus 5 (2 x Lv - 5). Meaning at level 1, it would actually add 3, and at level 50 it would take away 95.

I feel like moves like that will radically change the way people will invest their mons. What kind of mundane moves will be available?

Also, these moves are going to break Little Cup. Mons can run a mundane move at essentially no cost, and the damage output is way too high.

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